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This week’s Game of Thrones had a resurrection, a reunion, and, um, Stone Men. But let’s start with the dragon action.
Daenerys wanted swift justice for last week’s massacre.
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Jon decided to finally pull the trigger on the whole “Free the Wildlings” thing.
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The later meeting gave Stannis the chance to go Stannis.
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Sansa was reunited with an old friend.
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And because he was clearly the only one there who “murdered” Starks, Reek apologized.
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The Boltons were aware of Stannis’ plan to invade.
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Smartass Stannis is my favorite Stannis.
Grammar Nazi Stannis is my favorite Stannis.
NOBODY loves Milhouse!
I mean, Stannis….
Heh, Stannis is such a miserable grouch, in an increasingly-endearing way. So there’s no way he’s gonna survive the season/attack on Winterfell, right?
Stannis would point out you misspelled Valyria.
But speaking of, what’s the point in going there? Why not just travel down the river and encounter the stone men that way? Mormont even basically said “nah no reason for us to go this way.” That really bugged me.
No pirates because everyone’s afraid of going to Valyria because of the curse of the doom. Which doesn’t explain who’s dropping all the Stonemen off there.
But the real reason they did that is that grey scale plays a role in the books with a character who clearly isn’t going to be on the show and it looks like Ser Friendzone drew the short straw to see which TV character would pick up that story-line.
@Holodigm I’m just gonna print out a map and character wiki to keep by the computer at all times.
@ Holodigm – due to cuts in the show those two met in Volantis, why would they go up the river away from Mereen? Also Jorah said they would be going through valyria instead of around to avoid pirates.
I was really confused…my geographic knowledge of the GoT world is not great, but did that make any sense at all, geographically speaking? I thought Valyria was completely the opposite way from where they were AND where they were going.
@Billy Boy [quartermaester.info]
That should help out in a non-spoiling things fashion
And as you can see from that map that little skiff Jorah and Tyrion are using to get from Volantis to Dany is woefully inadequate for the distance they have to go.
Ah, indeed that does seem to answer it and show me my wrongness. Of course, didn’t they sail by Tarth before? That skiff must have a 250HP inboard hidden somewhere.
Tarth is more by Westeros, if I am correct. It’s a little island between Storm’s End and Dorne – sort of a Madagascar to Westero’s Africa, if you will…
@Billy Boy Jorah/Tyrion didn’t sail by Tarth — that was Jaime and Bronn.
God damn am I lost!
@bread Jorah kidnaps Tyrion in Volantis in the books too. Only difference is that Tyrion wasn’t traveling with Varys, he was with “Griff” aka Lord Jon Connington, former Hand to Aerys and too minor of a character to make it to TV. He was also the one with greyscale, not Ser Friendzone. None of these are spoilers, if anyone cares.
The more I see of Stannis the more he becomes me favorite character.
Yarrrr, me too.
Sir Davos > Stannis
Nice to see Bolton keeping up the tradition of giving great fatherly speeches.
Apparently last night was “type like a pirate” night.
he IS my favourite king (the one true one!) and I’m going to flip so hard over losing him if we ever do. (him and Davos are pretty much the best duo and friends, him and Melisandre are the most effective ones, him and Jon Snow are in the best admiring relationship, and him and his daughter are the most emotionally adorable ones.)
Welcome to Daenery’s BBQ!
The extra B is for BYOBB
@Cocksteady That’s right. You haven’t tasted real BBQ until its been dragon- seared at 3000 degrees,
@Why thank you Eddie The dragonfire really seals in the juices!
I laughed out loud three times this week. At least Dexter went to shit gradually.
1. When Ramsey was making Theon apologize for killing her brothers. He’s not dumb enough to think that was appropriate and he’s also not dumb enough to upstage his father like that.
2. When Grey Worm said he was afraid he’d never see his chick again. Does anyone care about this love story? Did they put this in place so the chicks have something to watch for since they don’t show dick anymore?
3. I honestly thought they would end with Tyrion being dragged down in the water. Kind of figure the show has declined so rapidly that they would think this was a fitting end to an episode.
I was hoping it was Margaery that was naked.
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I actually appreciate them giving Grey Worm & Missandei some of their own character work. It actually makes them human beings and not just Daenery’s background furniture.
Haha. Listen to this fucking guy. “What, did they add this romance BULLSHIT for CHICKS since they stopped showing DICK on the show???”
You sound like a terrible person.
Obviously you don’t know much of Ramsey’s work.
I’m with you man, I couldn’t give a fuuuuuuuuuuuuck about Grey Worm and Missandei. I have always been mystified by them forcing that into the show, when the time could be spent developing better characters and storylines.
I’m calling it now – the people saying ‘man this show has gone to shit’ are gonna eat their words later this season when the last few eps knock errybody’s socks off.
Yeah, they should definitely spend less time on Grey Worm and Missandei so they can give more screen time to the riveting Sam-Gilly romance.
GW/Missandei is more along the lines of “Well, Dany’s Meereen nonsense is boring as fuck, let’s put these two cooler/better characters together to make it feel like SOMETHING is happening in Meereen.”
Hodor.
@JustinJump
“YEAH BRAH WERE THE FUCK IS ALL THE HARD THROBBING COCK WE CRAVE”
Man they really shoehorned that marriage in there…and Valyria was a huge disappointment for me compared to how it was previously described.
Two weeks in a row without Arya should be against the rules too.
I remember in the books the marriage was something pushed on her by the guy she’s now proposing it too, talked into it to end the violence, something that wasn’t her idea and shackled her to Mereen.
I’m not sure if this approach is really better, making it her spontaneous idea as if she has some kinda grand plan no one knows about it.
What worries me is that it looks like, at this pace, Dany will have reached the end of her book story by the end of this season and pretty much nothing that was established in the book, about climactic battles and suitors from westeros and all that, has actually happened or been included. Not sure where she is supposed to go.
“Not sure where she is supposed to go.”
Away, preferably. Give her the Bran Stark treatment and take her out of the show for a season.
“Not sure where she is supposed to go.”
Hopefully she fucking goes to Westeros with her army and dragons, because that’s sure not happening in the books any time soon.
fibally I got a new
Episode to watch
That first gif is so fucking awesome, seeing the fire start in the dark like that was one of the coolest things they’ve done with the dragons. Also, great acting with Tyrion and Jorah seeing the dragon.
Finally, I think I’d take a dagger to the ribcage to makeout with Missandei.
I’m not sure why Jorah acted so surprised, I mean, it’s not like he hasn’t seen the dragons before
@Dr. Nguyen Van Phuoc Because they’re still a long ways from Meereen and last he knew, Dany was somewhat still in control of her dragons. Drogon hadn’t been seen since he lit up that child near the end of last season, and at that point, Jorah had already been exiled away from her entourage.
Giving Jorah grey scale was weird. Not sure the reason for this.
Also, yes Stannis is great but we already knew this due to the fact Davos is his right hand man.
Stannis is growing on me. After saving the day at the end of last season and his speech to his daughter last week, he’s moving up the list. Of course, that means he’s a dead man now.
I’m thinking Jorah will be dead by the end of the season. He’ll end up valiantly sacrificing himself for Dany and his death will be a “put him out of his misery” type thing. That, or he’ll become a Stone Man soldier in Dany’s army and just go full-out ridiculous with it.
Stannis’s crew is just the best, and has been forever. they even became one of the main factors in making the story at the wall go from one of the weakest parts of the last 4 seasons to being the best thing in season 5.
Fine. I’ll be the one to say it.
With the exception of Tyrion and Jorah, last night’s episode bored me to tears. I get that they can’t all be Red Wedding episodes, but meh…
Every time a scene at Winterfell ended I was praying “Please take us somewhere else…at least for a bit”
Alas it was a very Winterfellian episode
A lot of setup for future action. Looks like next week will be the same based on the previews (Littlefinger in KL with Cersei, Sand Snakes/Dorne, Arya at House of B&W… gonna feel a whole lot like AFFC in here)
It wasn’t action-heavy, but I’d been awaiting that Sansa / Theon scene for weeks, and it didn’t disappoint. I also love how Ramsay KNOWS that Theon didn’t actually kill Rickon and Bran, but he’s making Theon act like he did, which tortures Theon AND Sansa a lot more – Theon, for he’s forced to re-live the fact that his men burned 2 innocent boys, and the fact that he can’t tell Sansa the truth; Sansa, for the fact that she’s constantly being reminded of her supposedly dead brothers.
When Ramsey asked his dad “How did you do it?”, I half-expected Roose to reply, “Well, son, I rolled her in flour, and found the wet spot….”
@Cocksteady
+1 Steel Panther
I thought there were no more Targaryens except for Dany. So why would Maester Aemon say her only relation is thousands of miles away?
Because he s also a Targaryen
Jesus. How did I forget?
Note that Jon immediately appeared and spoke the next line after Aemon said this. Reminded me of the scene in Empire Strikes Back where Obi-Wan says to Yoda as Luke leaves, “That boy is our last hope” and Yoda replies “No, there is another”.
Miranda has a great fucking ass
which is weird for a half-skeleton chick